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DragonSpeed has confirmed a part-time 2019 IndyCar programme with the intention of going full-time the following year. The World Endurance Championship LMP1 and LMP2 squad has confirmed its expected deal for its sportscar regular Ben Hanley to pilot the team’s single-car entry. It has also signed Chevrolet as its engine supplier – DragonSpeed explored opportunities

Josef Newgarden says his Penske IndyCar team has made a step in the right direction to solve the “deficiencies” it had in 2018. Newgarden could not defend his title last season, as he and team-mate Will Power failed to wrestle the crown from Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon. The 2017 IndyCar champion was part of

Schmidt Peterson Motorsports believes Formula 1 recruit Marcus Ericsson has a driving style compatible with 2019 IndyCar team-mate James Hinchcliffe and the sidelined Robert Wickens. Ericsson will switch to IndyCar in 2019 to fill the void vacated by Wickens and SPM has previously made clear it was targeting a driver that could complement Hinchcliffe. SPM

The new-look Steinbrenner Harding Racing IndyCar team will run with Honda engines in the 2019 season. Harding had been considering its options after running with Chevrolet engines in its first full IndyCar campaign this year. But its rebirth as Steinbrenner and growing affiliation with the Andretti Autosport squad, which loaned the team staff and technical

Ex-Sauber Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson has completed his first IndyCar test with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports at Sebring, covering “around 100-115” laps. Ericsson will compete in the 2019 IndyCar season alongside James Hinchcliffe, as Robert Wickens continues his recovery from his serious injuries suffered at Pocono earlier this year. The F1 convert’s first IndyCar experience

Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso’s 2019 McLaren Racing Indianapolis 500 entry will be powered by Chevrolet engines. McLaren announced its intention to return to the Brickyard during this year’s Brazilian Grand Prix weekend in November, but did not announce an engine supplier or the wider make up of its team. It has since hired

Ex-Formula 1 driver Rubens Barrichello’s son Eduardo will race in the 2019 Cooper Tyres USF2000 Championship. The young Barrichello, 17, will drive for Miller Vinatieri Motorsports two-car team alongside Jack William Miller, son of former Indy car driver Dr. Jack Miller. Barrichello’s move is the first step on the Road to Indy development ladder sanctioned

Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson says he is interested in contesting IndyCar races but would prefer to try a road course rather than an oval. Johnson tried a Formula 1 car for the first time on Monday in a drive-swap event with Fernando Alonso in Bahrain, sampling a 2013 McLaren-Mercedes while Alonso tried his

Injured IndyCar driver Robert Wickens’s latest social media update on his recovery shows him progressing with gait training – the process of learning to walk again. The Canadian, who suffered a spinal cord injury in a 200mph-plus shunt at Pocono Raceway in August, posted a video to Instagram and Twitter. In it, he turns to

Santino Ferrucci will contest the full 2019 IndyCar Series season as team-mate to Sebastien Bourdais at Dale Coyne Racing. The 20-year-old former Formula 2 racer made four starts with Coyne this season, and was unlucky not to score a top 10 finish at Portland. His 2019 deal was announced by the Wasserman Media Group, which

IndyCar boss Mark Miles described initial talks about the possibility of running a race on the Gold Coast as “encouraging” after a visit to Australia. Miles, CEO of Hulman & Company, which owns the series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and Stephen Starks, IndyCar’s VP of promoter and media partner relations, made the trip to investigate

Indy Lights champion Patricio O’Ward believes if he and Harding Racing can “put everything together” then he can be challenging for wins in his first IndyCar season. The 19-year-old Mexican caused a sensation when he made the ‘Fast Six’ pole shootout in qualifying for his IndyCar debut at this year’s season finale at Sonoma. Although

Former Force India Formula 1 deputy team principal Bob Fernley has been named president of McLaren’s IndyCar programme. McLaren announced during the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend that Fernando Alonso would return to the Indianapolis 500 in 2019 with McLaren under a new banner known as McLaren Racing. The team intends to use its own staff,

McLaren Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso will return to the Indianapolis 500 in 2019 for his second attempt on IndyCar’s most famous race. In this latest video, Autosport.com Editor Glenn Freeman is joined by Autosport’s American Racing Reporter Tom Errington and F1 Racing Editor Ben Anderson. The trio discuss whether Alonso will find the Indy

Jordan King will compete in the 2019 Indianapolis 500 with IndyCar team Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. King made his IndyCar debut with Ed Carpenter Racing in 2018, driving on the road and street courses in a shared ride with team boss Ed Carpenter. The British driver had been searching for a full-time ride for the

IndyCar chiefs are beginning formal talks about bringing Surfers Paradise back onto the calendar, possibly as soon as 2020. Discussions have been triggered by a meeting between 2014 IndyCar champion and ’18 Indianapolis 500 winner Will Power and Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk. This week Mark Miles, CEO of IndyCar owner Hulman & Co, and IndyCar’s

The 2019 Indy Lights champion will receive an increased financial prize for winning the series, despite Mazda’s withdrawal from the Road to Indy scheme at the end of this year. Mazda announced earlier this year it will end its $5million annual backing of the Road to Indy ladder, while still honouring the scholarships of 2018’s

The McLaren Formula 1 team’s 2019 Indianapolis 500 effort will be a “separate team”, rather than an affiliation similar fashion to its partnership with Andretti Autosport in ’17. McLaren’s first attempt on the Indy 500 with Fernando Alonso came in an Andretti-run car under the McLaren banner, but with the presence of F1 team veteran

Fernando Alonso will return to the Indianapolis 500 with McLaren in 2019 as he bids to complete motorsport’s unofficial Triple Crown. The two-time F1 world champion will step away from McLaren’s grand prix team at the end of this season, but beyond completing the 2018-19 World Endurance Championship superseason with Toyota, he had nothing else

The Mayor of Rio de Janeiro has announced there will be an IndyCar race in the city in 2020, but series officials have denied any such deal has been done. Mayor Marcelo Crivella said that he had received representatives from the IndyCar Series and declared the race will take place on a city street track

James Hinchcliffe says he is glad Schmidt Peterson Motorsports did not buy him a seat in the 2018 Indianapolis 500 after he failed to qualify. Bumping returned to the Indy 500 in 2018 after a surge of interest pushed entries beyond the 33-car limit, and Hinchcliffe was a shock non-qualifier alongside Dale Coyne Racing’s Pippa

Mari Hulman George, who served as chairman of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Holman & Company from 1988 to 2016, has died aged 83. Hulman George, whose father Anton “Tony” Hulman Jr. saved the facility from almost certain demolition after World War II in November 1945, was a pioneer as co-owner of a team that

Former Schmidt Peterson Motorsports general manager Piers Phillips has joined Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing as president to oversee its involvement in IndyCar, IMSA and the new Jaguar i-Pace eTrophy Series. Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan’s team currently fields two Honda-powered cars in the IndyCar Series, two works BMW M8s in the GT Le

Marco Andretti has invested in his #98 IndyCar entry for next year, when it will officially be Andretti Herta Autosport w/ Marco Andretti & Curb-Agajanian. Bryan Herta Autosport joined forces with Andretti Autosport to run the #98 car prior to the 2016 season, with Marco Andretti switching across from the #27 entry to replace Alexander

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson has admitted his Formula 1 experience will raise the pressure on him considerably when he joins the IndyCar Series with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports for 2019. After five years on the F1 grid, Ericsson will become James Hinchcliffe’s full-time team-mate at SPM

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing says it was impressed by IndyCar signing Felix Rosenqvist’s pace compared to championship-winning team-mate Scott Dixon on his first test using IndyCar’s universal aerokit at Barber. Rosenqvist, who was announced as Ganassi’s second 2019 driver last month, had driven twice

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi and Tony Kanaan were among three drivers to take part in IndyCar’s first test at the Austin circuit that will join the series’ schedule from 2019. Andretti-Autosport driver Rossi and AJ Foyt’s Kanaan were joined by an unnamed Carlin driver in

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson will switch to IndyCar in 2019, driving for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports as full-time team-mate to James Hinchcliffe. Ericsson has raced with Sauber for the past four seasons, and will have made 97 F1 starts when he competes

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has invited IndyCar boss Mark Miles to the Gold Coast to discuss bringing the series back to Surfers Paradise. According to the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper, Palaszczuk has extended the invite to Miles as part of an ambitious vision

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Injured IndyCar driver Robert Wickens has offered more detail on his definition of himself as a paraplegic in his recent posts on social media. A spinal cord injury was among the severe injuries Wickens sustained in his horrific accident at Pocono in August.